November 14, 2023 • 26 mins
Picture this: you're stuck in a ball pit, your older sister is forcing you to eat a cheeseburger, and you're at a McDonald's birthday party. Sound familiar? We're stepping into the time machine in this episode, reminiscing about our childhood experiences and the surprising comeback of adult ball pits.
But it's not just about reliving the past. Join us as we navigate the choppy waters of adulthood, from the unrealistic expectations set by movies like '13 Going On 30' to the seemingly perfect lives of hot NYC moms on TikTok, and even our own amusing attempts at pretending to be twins. We're also sharing the forgotten joys of receiving mail and how it's tragically replaced by bills and junk mail in adulthood. So, get ready for a nostalgia-fueled journey, filled with laughter and maybe a few cringes, as we look back at our past selves.
But it's not just about reliving the past. Join us as we navigate the choppy waters of adulthood, from the unrealistic expectations set by movies like '13 Going On 30' to the seemingly perfect lives of hot NYC moms on TikTok, and even our own amusing attempts at pretending to be twins. We're also sharing the forgotten joys of receiving mail and how it's tragically replaced by bills and junk mail in adulthood. So, get ready for a nostalgia-fueled journey, filled with laughter and maybe a few cringes, as we look back at our past selves.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi, hi, welcome to Sister Shit.
I'm Caroline, I'm Meredith.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
And this is the podcast where we talk about
things we don't know that muchabout.
Okay, I have a fun question.
Not a fun question, just anobservation.
I, when COVID happened, Ithought there's no way ball pits
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will ever be part of our worldever again.
Yeah, because you know, likethe color factory had that, yeah
, and like I don't know, it waslike an Instagram thing, like
museums would have, like the bigpink ball pit was out of the
color factory, maybe.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And then there was the like sprinkle one.
Yeah, the museum of ice cream.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yes, Adult ball pits I have recently been seeing.
There's a new one and it's atthe balloon museum, where the
you should be proud of mebecause I clicked I clicked into
this post to figure out whereit was, so I could have some
facts for this episode.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, don't know where it is.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think it.
I think it moves around.
I think it's like New York andlike moves to major cities.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What does one do?
It looked really boring.
Balloons.
It looked like not even realballoons, no it's just like
different like.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think it's like different rooms.
You can go in and take coolpictures in With balloons, but
most of them weren't realballoons.
Most of them were like theplastic ball, like beach ball,
like clear beach balls.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You can just like do that at your house.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, I don't know, but the thing that everyone is
posting now is the ball pit andI thought, huh, I really thought
not that I have anythingagainst a ball pit.
I would love to go be in oneone day, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I've got some like PTSD from the McDonald's ball
pit.
What happened?
I've been stuck in there.
Oh, I love a ball pit.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
There's been P in one .
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The outdoor one and the McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I was going to say remember the like kitty one
there was like a kitty one andthen a big kid one.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I would just like swim, I know, and it was so fun
and like I would go under.
Oh, yeah, like you're swimming?
Yes, oh gosh, no, maybe that'sI'm trying to think if like that
boosted my immune system ormade it worse, I think it
definitely helped us.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
They were in.
There was always like amysterious sticky ball, but
anyway they're back.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And I am just surprised.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I just never thought we'd see a ball pit ever again.
And they in, like I thinkthere's like a I.
When COVID was happening, I waskept thinking like it's going
to be so long before things thatused to be normal are normal
again.
And we're back to ball.
I know like we really I justcan't get over that I think it
was like a traumatic event thatall of us just blacked, like we
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just erased the memory, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah.
Yeah, because it was prettyawful.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It was awful, but I just I'm like I'm I don't know.
That's all I have to say aboutit.
I've just I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I can't get over the fact that there's a museum about
balloon.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, it's I don't think it's a museum.
It's like not like a learningexperience, it's like an like
you go when you swim in the ballpit and you take pictures with
the balloons is what it lookedlike?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just like the ice cream.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but the museum of icecream has a lot more options
than, like, the museum ofballoons.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I didn't look super into it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
All balloons look the same.
There's different color.
One looks like an apple.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's dumb, interesting, but you know people
are going love an opportunityfor a photo.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do, and Apparently, a ball pit in a ball pit.
So anyway, that's just mythought of the week.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You really just took me back to the McDonald's play
area.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I have vivid memories I do too.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I remember one time I've told this story so many
times, I think because it's likepartially Traumatizing, but
like my mom's made you eat thebird.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, yes, I was in the ball pit when I was watching
it go down.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I know, and you were like so happy because mom
wouldn't have made me do it.
Our sister was watching us andI used to order, which, like
this, makes total sense I wouldorder a hamburger or sorry, a
cheeseburger without the brownstuff.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So I mean the meat.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, which, like I, get that their meat is
Disgusting you wanted a cheese,so I wanted like a cheese
sandwich with like ketchup andpickles and mustard and mom
would let me take the meat off.
Yeah and we went with my sisterand my sister said I am not.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Our older sister.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
She said I am not buying into this you're eating
the damn cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Thank the Lord, for once somebody in this world is
not gonna let Caroline dowhatever the hell she wants.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, well, I had an issue swallowing the meat
because it was so effing chewy.
I sat there for what felt like30 minutes chewing one bite of a
cheeseburger and I couldn'tmake it go down.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I was very dramatic.
I couldn't did you?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
cry.
No, I did not cry.
I remember being like what am Igonna do?
Yeah, I can't get it to go downmy throat.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think I ended up, swishing it down with I did.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I remember this gosh, emily really put her foot down,
she did and she said I am sickof this shit, she is not getting
away with this.
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I mean, emily have never talked about that
experience.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I Remember it in great.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, you know my favorite McDonald's story your
birthday party there.
No, I don't remember that, I'vejust seen pictures.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The fact that we used to throw birthday party.
Now I guess McDonald's likeChick-fil-A is the true 90s kid
yeah, okay, my favorite actually.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
so many funny things happen in the McDonald's
drive-thru with mom, my favoritememory ever is remember when
they had this shake the shake.
What were they called the shakethe shake?
Salad salad that came in amilkshake cup with a lid, with a
like which.
I want them to bring those back.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh, I don't want to eat any of the dress, like
always, we couldn't get it downto the bottom, it was just like
stuck.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Okay, anyway, she mom had just gotten a brand new
Suburb and she was already madat us because I don't know what
we had done, but we were reallyannoying.
We were like on one that day orsomething and I got my what
were they called salad shakersor something look at that I had
just gotten mine handed to meand I Fell off and salad and
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ranch went.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh my gosh, they were called McSalad shakers, salad
shakers.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Okay, I mean, there was stuck to the felt ceiling
and she she was big, it like alot to make mom mad it did?
I don't.
Yes, it did.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
She had a now I'm a mom.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm like gosh mom had a lot of patience.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She did have so much patience, but she also had us
like under this spell.
We're like, if she gave us thisone look, I knew I better get
my shit together and I would doit.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I do it now, if I did that to sim.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Sim would not get a shit together.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Oh, it's starting, it's it's coming into effect
with my girls.
Okay, they all get in.
They'll nose, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So like six years old , yeah, I think okay because
right now he would not Pay anymind to the yeah, oh, it works,
but I remember mom's look likeputting the fear of God.
Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Will never also there .
I think this happened inMcDonald's drive-thru, but we
were mom.
I actually was taught she wastalking about our last episode
and how she was dying at like ustalking about burping and how
it's not Acceptable and she waslike I thought you were gonna
tell this story and one time wewere like Making ourselves burp
in the back seat and she waslike finally was this in the
(08:00):
McDonald's drive-thru.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I think we had just gone to McDonald's because she'd
been drinking a McDonald's Coke, which we all know where the
shoes like girls, do not makeyourself burp.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That is so like.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
As you said, the word rude.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It was like the timing was.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Even she was like dying.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
We all it was an amazing part of my moment, of my
time.
She like shocked herself and wewere all just like dying
laughing anyway.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, so I didn't know we couldmake a whole episode about
McDonald's, but here we are Iknow, here we are Also okay.
One more thing about McDonald's.
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Remember you might've been tooyoung because I was in the first
grade, but they had beaniebabies as the prizes.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I remember this, you remember.
I remember because everyone wastrying to collect it yes.
So everyone was eating an asssort of McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
My theory is that they spent way too much money on
that collaboration, becausesince then the toys have been
absolute crap.
Yeah, I remember us wheelingand dealing our McDonald's
beanie babies on the recess Likeit was like drugs.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Like people were like what you got?
You got the platypus I lovedthe Barbies.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The Barbies were like my era.
We had all the differentBarbies, but then also-.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
McDonald's Barbies.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, they're like little tiny Barbies.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh, I don't know that .
They're like short.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
McDonald's versions of Barbies.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Interesting.
They should bring that back.
They had.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Barbie hair?
Oh, but do you also rememberthe Monopoly game that people?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
would get like so into.
It was like gambling.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, it was literally gambling.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
People really bought into that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I went through a phase where I was like I'm going
to do this, this year.
And I, like, would eat so manychickens.
What was the grand prize?
I don't even know.
I don't remember, but it waskind of fun.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Man McDonald's was really in its golden years, I
think, when we were growing up.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I ate a lot of McDonald's in high school.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Me too.
We would skip lunch and go.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And I would get my cousin and I would get a
McChicken and a McDouble andthen we would cut them in half
and then I'd get half of theMcChicken, like we would do,
like a split z.
That feels really unnecessary,and they were both like a dollar
, so it's been like nothing ondinner.
It was great.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's not cheap anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, ok, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It is just as expensive as Chick-fil-A.
I know it's kind of crazy.
It is not even worth it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The only thing I'll go for is like Coke and fries.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And that's it.
But you know what?
Because they're my favoritemission and it's always broken.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I went to the doctor recently and got my first blood
work done of like since I hadkids, I guess, so like first
blood work done in like fiveyears, tell me some kind of news
?
No, I have high cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Wait, you are telling me news that's kind of scary.
No, it's only slightly elevatedit's 150.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
115.
It's supposed to be under 100.
And so he just told me toexercise, which I'm doing, all
the things I'm supposed to bedoing but I came home and don't
keep.
He was like, yeah, just stopeating McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You do eat a lot of McDonald's, you and Ben like I
always do that TikTok where it'slike, you see, the McDonald's.
Golden arches, the goldenarches and you like have to pull
in to get something.
And I'm like you and Ben, Iknow.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I haven't been as bad I like.
I don't go as much as I used to, but apparently I need to go
even less because my cholesterolCollesterol is high.
But apparently it runs in thefamily.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, mom has high health, yeah, she told me we had a whole
discussion about it.
Well, I was going to saywhenever we were in this.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
We have this friend group that we call Bloated and
it's like me and Hannah and Benand you, meredith and myself,
and we would like hang out andme and Hannah would literally
have to be like guys please,like we don't want McDonald's
tonight, like we'd have to begBen and Meredith to not make us
go to McDonald's.
I ate more McDonald's, I know,like the most I have in my adult
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life, when Ben and Hannah lived.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh, me too.
It's because you find someone.
I found Ben and I was like you,like McDonald's.
We enabled each other.
Yeah, I need to check in withhim and see how he's doing, if
he's still eating as much,because we really we weren't
good for each other.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, hannah and I that, between that and chili,
good God, I ate a lot of badfood.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Chili's will put you right in the ground.
I went on to the slow death.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But gosh chilies, it's bad Death by diarrhea I
mean like oh man, I mean, we'vealready talked about this on the
podcast, we don't need to do itagain, but I will never forget
Ben's birthday where we all hadto go to Chili's and everyone
was sick from it and likesomeone ordered I'm pretty sure
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they ordered, like the chilifrom Chili's- what.
It was like chili, or likechili on queso oh, I didn't even
like the pepper, it was like achili.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It was like and it literally looked like diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It looked like dog food yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Oh yeah, it was like not a chili, it was like dog
food.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like I really think they opened a can of dog food
and just added some kidney, itwas.
It was the ad.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I keep getting nature's friend, or what it was
called farmer's dog.
Oh, this is bougie dog food.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
This will definitely pass, but honestly, that bougie
dog food would be more expensivethan chili.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And chili.
Oh my gosh OK, anyway, myquestion for tonight for our
topic.
I just watched 13 Going on 30.
So this is definitely has to dowith that.
It really is a great movie.
It holds up in every way.
Great cast I know, it's so cute, but what is something that is
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like different, like now thatyou're an adult?
Is there what's somethingthat's like very different than
you thought it would be as achild, because there's something
you looked forward to as a kidand now you're like.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I looked forward to adulthood and I'm like wait a
minute.
I did not sign up for this it'sdefinitely a lot more expensive
than I expected.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And I definitely thought that money would come to
me way easier than it does Ijust remember?
I always wanted to be.
I always pictured my life verymuch in the framework of movies
like 13 Going on 30 and 10Things I Hate About you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And all the movies.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That told me that I was gonna be a hot journalist in
my 30s.
But I also wanted in the NewYork City and I'd be calling
cabs like every lunch break.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Oh, I definitely pictured like living in the
queue apartment in the city andlike yeah, they really didn't
take out.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
They really like, made our adult life look.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
really it was a narrow path, like crying over a
really bad breakup even seemedsomewhat desirable.
Eating ice cream in bed itseemed desirable to go through a
bad breakup.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Camerideas in the scarf in bed in England eating
the ice cream was like oh, thislooks so amazing.
I know.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Anyway, but I remember.
So I always pictured I was likeI always wanted a job.
I also always wanted to getmarried and have kids.
So I didn't know how thatfactored in, because you don't
see that in the movies growing.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
No, they never do both.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And also because all the moms in the movies growing
up had bad hair that made themlook old.
And we were just looking atthis video about hair psychology
and it put like old lady hairon all the like celebrities that
are in their 50s now, likeCourtney Cox and Jennifer
Aniston, and like they literallylook like they're 70 years old.
Yeah, so anyway.
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No wonder we weren't picturingourselves with parents or as
parents with kids, because theyall looked old as hell.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, they did.
I mean, the golden girls werelike younger than our mom
currently and I thought theywere ancient.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I know it's because they all had the hair.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, it's very interesting, it is interesting
Also the oh, I lost my train ofthought.
It was something about the kidthing about how you like they
don't portray that in the movies.
Oh, I was gonna say Shanika,who is on our House of Wax
episode.
Her and I have this likeobsession right now about
updating each other on the likefamous New York City mom
(16:26):
TikTokers.
Oh, and like it's like day inthe life of like hot New York.
City mom with like four kidsnot four kids, like two or three
kids.
Uh-huh, they're loaded, they'regetting to live.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Both lives, both lives Interesting, it's so
intriguing.
I want to see we like talkabout it every time we see each
other.
How old are they?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Like 30, something Interesting.
Yeah, they're doing it all.
Huh, I mean, one of them, I'mpretty sure, is single too.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Are they like stay at home moms, or are they?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
No one of them's like a day in the life of a working
New York City mom.
Ok, and she's like loaded richand whatever I'm so intrigued.
And then the other one, I think, stays home and has a rich
husband.
Ok, so there's a variety.
I can't wait to get on thistrain, but it's so interesting
that those people got to watch13 going on 30 and then they got
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to live it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I know.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
How.
I don't know what's the formulafor this.
I went wrong somewhere.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
For real.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I mean not wrong, but what Different yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I just didn't realize there were options other
than that, because that was allI saw.
I know New York Minute man withthe Olsen twins.
I was like this is just myfuture Dude.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The Olsen twins Talk about setting us up for like too
high of expectations.
I thought I was going to findlove on every vacation I went on
For sure.
Yeah, and like that I don'tknow, me and my friend would
literally always pretend that wewere twins and like force her
mom to tell people that we weretwins.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Was it the friend that locked you on the back
porch of the dog?
Yes, it was the bossy friend.
Yes, we need a name for her.
Like a reference point, becausethe locked you in the back
porch of the dog is way too long.
And she comes up way too oftenbe saying that every episode.
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I did a lot of childhood with her, and her mom
would tell people that we weretwins.
I have a vivid memory of usbeing at a water park trying to
convince an adult that we weretwins, and the adult was like
not playing games with us anddid not give a shit.
And she was like hardcore.
And then not kidding, this isall unlocking.
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As I'm saying it, we got in afight because I ended up like
being like LOL, yeah, it's ajoke and she was pissed that I
broke character.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
So, oh my gosh, but yeah, I feel like so.
When I finally got like wasworking nine to five, I just
remember thinking and not that Iwas like comparing it to the
movies at that point, but I justremember thinking like when I
finally have like gotten out ofcollege, got a job and like sat
down at my desk for the firstday of work Because I interned
(19:07):
there before, but then I liketook the full time, graduated,
did the thing, and I was like,oh my gosh, this is my life.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
now Is this the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Is this what everyone's been doing?
They're all just okay withsitting here, yeah, for nine
hours a day and these windowsdon't open and like, like I was
just not like not in a grave way.
I just was like there's nofresh air in this building.
There's like a actual watercooler where people go and chat.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Which is interesting because you did work at a cool
place and you also love theoffice.
I'm surprised you weren't likeI'm getting to live my office
dream.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
In some ways I was, but I think it was like when I
like was there every day, I waslike, oh my gosh, that was a
realization for me was like oh,I don't know when my next break
is.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't get a spring break.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I had friends that were like going on spring
breaks.
And I was like I've donesomething wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Like I, have no more spring breaks and life has begun
.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, no one prepares you.
I mean, I guess you're justsupposed to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Which we did.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, you're supposed to think ahead like, oh
, this we're not going to have aspring break forever.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But I think that's a common thing, like I think a lot
of people like get into there.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Well, because your whole life, your it's like, your
whole life is punctuated bylike what's the next thing?
Yeah, it's so, it, and then allof a sudden you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Oh my gosh.
And having kids, even more sowhen I had a.
When I had my son.
I remember being like I don'teven get weekends.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Like.
I don't even like.
This just goes on and on everyday.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And on.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah what you do and you get breaks yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is interesting that your life really does
revolve around breaks and thenall of a sudden there aren't any
.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I mean, I think that's why there's people that,
like, are always planning avacation.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, I will say I'm kind of one of those people that
I don't love when I don't havesomething to look forward to.
I typically need something.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, I've just turned into the person that
always needs a package coming.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Like I was talking to you about this, how you're.
It's like the modern day, it'sthe modern day.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
QVC person.
I'm like, if I don't, even ifit's like a bag of screws from
Amazon, I'm like I got a packagecoming, all as well, I got a
stuff.
I got to take a step back.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I do, I do love a package coming.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I love a package coming.
I have a piece of mail on mycounter right now that I haven't
opened and I know what it is.
It's like thank you letters fora nonprofit that I'm on the
board of that I have to writedonors, and I get a boost of
serotonin when I just see theunopened package on my counter
and it's been there for a weekand I know what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And it's not exciting .
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And it's not exciting , but it's like my brain has
been like trained to see apackage and I'm like ooh.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I mean, it's so weird .
It's true, though, because Ithink that that's normal.
Yeah, I think that like maybenot package, but like I feel
like people have always lovedgetting mail, yeah that's true,
and as an adult, I mean even Samloves getting mail.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I mean even Sam loves getting mail.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Like some loves to check the mail.
Yeah, my curls do too.
But, as an adult, so often it'sbills and junk mail and like
scary adult things.
And so it really is nice whenit's something exciting.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
This is the most adult.
There are hopefully no youngerpeople listening to this,
because this is a really sadconversation Like this is the
epitome.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Do you remember when McDonald's was great, even just
like?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
the most exciting thing that's happening to our
lives is getting mail, gettingscrews in the mail and like
reminiscing on McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I know, no, that's not true.
We've got a lot of other goodthings going on, we do.
We literally test each othertoday and we're like I've been
like very depressed the last twodays.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So just take this as this is depression speaking.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, this is depression speaking, we're glass
half full tonight.
I mean, you have empty tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Do you know what I just got requested, though, for
veil?
My oldest daughter is turningseven in December and we're
taking her to the American GirlStore for her birthday.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And I've never been.
Did she know?
Yeah, she knows.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I've never been because there wasn't one in
Charlotte growing up, but I justrequested a catalog for her to
get.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So there is nothing like the American Girl's catalog
.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I'm a little scared to look at it though, because I
really wanted to be the exactsame as it was when I was little
, but I think it's probablysimilar, like they're still
going to have Felicity.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
No, they don't.
No, freaking way, she'sdiscontinued.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
No, freaking way, caroline, I'm going to tell you
this Before I gave her veil,felicity, I looked up her value
and she's worth like $1,200 nowbecause she's like they've
discontinued her.
Up.
They don't have Felicity, theyjust continued a lot of them, do
they have?
Kids.
They don't have Yosafina.
They have kids.
They don't have Yosafina.
I don't think so.
I don't think they have Addy.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh my God, like a lot of them are like Addy was so
cute she had the little buckteeth.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I know I guess they all do, but she had the little
bob, did she?
No, who's the one with, likethe short little ginger bob?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Ginger bob?
I don't remember, but there area lot of them are gone.
I looked on the website and Iwas like I don't recognize any
of you bitches.
They're all men Damn.
I know, but anyway that'll beexciting.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Now I'm like determined, with short, red hair
.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Maybe I'm wrong.
I think you're mixing, I'mmixing someone up.
Felicity had long red hair andKit had short blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Wait, who's this one?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I have never seen her in my life.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
She's one of the new bitches.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I know that's what I'm saying.
I'm not ready.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh yeah, that's a Emily Bennett.
Who the fuck are you, emily?
Mary Ellen Larkin.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's another one.
I'm telling you it's not goingto be the same, Lindsay.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Man, this is throwing me off.
Sage they got like hipsternames, like a bunch of hipster
parents.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I think that's sage the 2001.
Must be.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And then there's Nelly Dang, Mia St Clair.
That sounds like a trust fundbaby.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I never liked Samantha because she was spoiled
.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, she had the plaid like school outfit, right.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
She was Victorian.
I think People love Samantha.
I am really mixing these up.
You really are.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I was also a bitty baby gal and mom never got me
the like mom.
No, she got me the look like me.
Yeah, and I kind of messed outon the character thing.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I never read the books.
No, should have Anyways, allright, well, this was fun.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
This was fun.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Have a great Tuesday See you next Tuesday.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi, hi, welcome to Sister Shit.
I'm Caroline, I'm Meredith.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
And this is the podcast where we talk about
things we don't know that muchabout.
Okay, I have a fun question.
Not a fun question, just anobservation.
I, when COVID happened, Ithought there's no way ball pits
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will ever be part of our worldever again.
Yeah, because you know, likethe color factory had that, yeah
, and like I don't know, it waslike an Instagram thing, like
museums would have, like the bigpink ball pit was out of the
color factory, maybe.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And then there was the like sprinkle one.
Yeah, the museum of ice cream.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yes, Adult ball pits I have recently been seeing.
There's a new one and it's atthe balloon museum, where the
you should be proud of mebecause I clicked I clicked into
this post to figure out whereit was, so I could have some
facts for this episode.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, don't know where it is.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think it.
I think it moves around.
I think it's like New York andlike moves to major cities.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What does one do?
It looked really boring.
Balloons.
It looked like not even realballoons, no it's just like
different like.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think it's like different rooms.
You can go in and take coolpictures in With balloons, but
most of them weren't realballoons.
Most of them were like theplastic ball, like beach ball,
like clear beach balls.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You can just like do that at your house.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, I don't know, but the thing that everyone is
posting now is the ball pit andI thought, huh, I really thought
not that I have anythingagainst a ball pit.
I would love to go be in oneone day, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I've got some like PTSD from the McDonald's ball
pit.
What happened?
I've been stuck in there.
Oh, I love a ball pit.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
There's been P in one .
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The outdoor one and the McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I was going to say remember the like kitty one
there was like a kitty one andthen a big kid one.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I would just like swim, I know, and it was so fun
and like I would go under.
Oh, yeah, like you're swimming?
Yes, oh gosh, no, maybe that'sI'm trying to think if like that
boosted my immune system ormade it worse, I think it
definitely helped us.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
They were in.
There was always like amysterious sticky ball, but
anyway they're back.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And I am just surprised.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I just never thought we'd see a ball pit ever again.
And they in, like I thinkthere's like a I.
When COVID was happening, I waskept thinking like it's going
to be so long before things thatused to be normal are normal
again.
And we're back to ball.
I know like we really I justcan't get over that I think it
was like a traumatic event thatall of us just blacked, like we
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just erased the memory, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah.
Yeah, because it was prettyawful.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
It was awful, but I just I'm like I'm I don't know.
That's all I have to say aboutit.
I've just I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I can't get over the fact that there's a museum about
balloon.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, it's I don't think it's a museum.
It's like not like a learningexperience, it's like an like
you go when you swim in the ballpit and you take pictures with
the balloons is what it lookedlike?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just like the ice cream.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but the museum of icecream has a lot more options
than, like, the museum ofballoons.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I didn't look super into it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
All balloons look the same.
There's different color.
One looks like an apple.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's dumb, interesting, but you know people
are going love an opportunityfor a photo.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do, and Apparently, a ball pit in a ball pit.
So anyway, that's just mythought of the week.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You really just took me back to the McDonald's play
area.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I have vivid memories I do too.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I remember one time I've told this story so many
times, I think because it's likepartially Traumatizing, but
like my mom's made you eat thebird.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, yes, I was in the ball pit when I was watching
it go down.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I know, and you were like so happy because mom
wouldn't have made me do it.
Our sister was watching us andI used to order, which, like
this, makes total sense I wouldorder a hamburger or sorry, a
cheeseburger without the brownstuff.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So I mean the meat.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, which, like I, get that their meat is
Disgusting you wanted a cheese,so I wanted like a cheese
sandwich with like ketchup andpickles and mustard and mom
would let me take the meat off.
Yeah and we went with my sisterand my sister said I am not.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Our older sister.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
She said I am not buying into this you're eating
the damn cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Thank the Lord, for once somebody in this world is
not gonna let Caroline dowhatever the hell she wants.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, well, I had an issue swallowing the meat
because it was so effing chewy.
I sat there for what felt like30 minutes chewing one bite of a
cheeseburger and I couldn'tmake it go down.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I was very dramatic.
I couldn't did you?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
cry.
No, I did not cry.
I remember being like what am Igonna do?
Yeah, I can't get it to go downmy throat.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think I ended up, swishing it down with I did.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I remember this gosh, emily really put her foot down,
she did and she said I am sickof this shit, she is not getting
away with this.
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I mean, emily have never talked about that
experience.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I Remember it in great.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, you know my favorite McDonald's story your
birthday party there.
No, I don't remember that, I'vejust seen pictures.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The fact that we used to throw birthday party.
Now I guess McDonald's likeChick-fil-A is the true 90s kid
yeah, okay, my favorite actually.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
so many funny things happen in the McDonald's
drive-thru with mom, my favoritememory ever is remember when
they had this shake the shake.
What were they called the shakethe shake?
Salad salad that came in amilkshake cup with a lid, with a
like which.
I want them to bring those back.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh, I don't want to eat any of the dress, like
always, we couldn't get it downto the bottom, it was just like
stuck.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Okay, anyway, she mom had just gotten a brand new
Suburb and she was already madat us because I don't know what
we had done, but we were reallyannoying.
We were like on one that day orsomething and I got my what
were they called salad shakersor something look at that I had
just gotten mine handed to meand I Fell off and salad and
(06:41):
ranch went.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh my gosh, they were called McSalad shakers, salad
shakers.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Okay, I mean, there was stuck to the felt ceiling
and she she was big, it like alot to make mom mad it did?
I don't.
Yes, it did.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
She had a now I'm a mom.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm like gosh mom had a lot of patience.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She did have so much patience, but she also had us
like under this spell.
We're like, if she gave us thisone look, I knew I better get
my shit together and I would doit.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I do it now, if I did that to sim.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Sim would not get a shit together.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Oh, it's starting, it's it's coming into effect
with my girls.
Okay, they all get in.
They'll nose, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So like six years old , yeah, I think okay because
right now he would not Pay anymind to the yeah, oh, it works,
but I remember mom's look likeputting the fear of God.
Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Will never also there .
I think this happened inMcDonald's drive-thru, but we
were mom.
I actually was taught she wastalking about our last episode
and how she was dying at like ustalking about burping and how
it's not Acceptable and she waslike I thought you were gonna
tell this story and one time wewere like Making ourselves burp
in the back seat and she waslike finally was this in the
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McDonald's drive-thru.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I think we had just gone to McDonald's because she'd
been drinking a McDonald's Coke, which we all know where the
shoes like girls, do not makeyourself burp.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That is so like.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
As you said, the word rude.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It was like the timing was.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Even she was like dying.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
We all it was an amazing part of my moment, of my
time.
She like shocked herself and wewere all just like dying
laughing anyway.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, so I didn't know we couldmake a whole episode about
McDonald's, but here we are Iknow, here we are Also okay.
One more thing about McDonald's.
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Remember you might've been tooyoung because I was in the first
grade, but they had beaniebabies as the prizes.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I remember this, you remember.
I remember because everyone wastrying to collect it yes.
So everyone was eating an asssort of McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
My theory is that they spent way too much money on
that collaboration, becausesince then the toys have been
absolute crap.
Yeah, I remember us wheelingand dealing our McDonald's
beanie babies on the recess Likeit was like drugs.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Like people were like what you got?
You got the platypus I lovedthe Barbies.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The Barbies were like my era.
We had all the differentBarbies, but then also-.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
McDonald's Barbies.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, they're like little tiny Barbies.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh, I don't know that .
They're like short.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
McDonald's versions of Barbies.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Interesting.
They should bring that back.
They had.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Barbie hair?
Oh, but do you also rememberthe Monopoly game that people?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
would get like so into.
It was like gambling.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, it was literally gambling.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
People really bought into that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I went through a phase where I was like I'm going
to do this, this year.
And I, like, would eat so manychickens.
What was the grand prize?
I don't even know.
I don't remember, but it waskind of fun.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Man McDonald's was really in its golden years, I
think, when we were growing up.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I ate a lot of McDonald's in high school.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Me too.
We would skip lunch and go.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And I would get my cousin and I would get a
McChicken and a McDouble andthen we would cut them in half
and then I'd get half of theMcChicken, like we would do,
like a split z.
That feels really unnecessary,and they were both like a dollar
, so it's been like nothing ondinner.
It was great.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's not cheap anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, ok, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It is just as expensive as Chick-fil-A.
I know it's kind of crazy.
It is not even worth it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The only thing I'll go for is like Coke and fries.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And that's it.
But you know what?
Because they're my favoritemission and it's always broken.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I went to the doctor recently and got my first blood
work done of like since I hadkids, I guess, so like first
blood work done in like fiveyears, tell me some kind of news
?
No, I have high cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Wait, you are telling me news that's kind of scary.
No, it's only slightly elevatedit's 150.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
115.
It's supposed to be under 100.
And so he just told me toexercise, which I'm doing, all
the things I'm supposed to bedoing but I came home and don't
keep.
He was like, yeah, just stopeating McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You do eat a lot of McDonald's, you and Ben like I
always do that TikTok where it'slike, you see, the McDonald's.
Golden arches, the goldenarches and you like have to pull
in to get something.
And I'm like you and Ben, Iknow.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I haven't been as bad I like.
I don't go as much as I used to, but apparently I need to go
even less because my cholesterolCollesterol is high.
But apparently it runs in thefamily.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, mom has high health, yeah, she told me we had a whole
discussion about it.
Well, I was going to saywhenever we were in this.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
We have this friend group that we call Bloated and
it's like me and Hannah and Benand you, meredith and myself,
and we would like hang out andme and Hannah would literally
have to be like guys please,like we don't want McDonald's
tonight, like we'd have to begBen and Meredith to not make us
go to McDonald's.
I ate more McDonald's, I know,like the most I have in my adult
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life, when Ben and Hannah lived.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh, me too.
It's because you find someone.
I found Ben and I was like you,like McDonald's.
We enabled each other.
Yeah, I need to check in withhim and see how he's doing, if
he's still eating as much,because we really we weren't
good for each other.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, hannah and I that, between that and chili,
good God, I ate a lot of badfood.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Chili's will put you right in the ground.
I went on to the slow death.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But gosh chilies, it's bad Death by diarrhea I
mean like oh man, I mean, we'vealready talked about this on the
podcast, we don't need to do itagain, but I will never forget
Ben's birthday where we all hadto go to Chili's and everyone
was sick from it and likesomeone ordered I'm pretty sure
(12:55):
they ordered, like the chilifrom Chili's- what.
It was like chili, or likechili on queso oh, I didn't even
like the pepper, it was like achili.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It was like and it literally looked like diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It looked like dog food yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Oh yeah, it was like not a chili, it was like dog
food.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like I really think they opened a can of dog food
and just added some kidney, itwas.
It was the ad.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I keep getting nature's friend, or what it was
called farmer's dog.
Oh, this is bougie dog food.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
This will definitely pass, but honestly, that bougie
dog food would be more expensivethan chili.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And chili.
Oh my gosh OK, anyway, myquestion for tonight for our
topic.
I just watched 13 Going on 30.
So this is definitely has to dowith that.
It really is a great movie.
It holds up in every way.
Great cast I know, it's so cute, but what is something that is
(13:57):
like different, like now thatyou're an adult?
Is there what's somethingthat's like very different than
you thought it would be as achild, because there's something
you looked forward to as a kidand now you're like.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I looked forward to adulthood and I'm like wait a
minute.
I did not sign up for this it'sdefinitely a lot more expensive
than I expected.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And I definitely thought that money would come to
me way easier than it does Ijust remember?
I always wanted to be.
I always pictured my life verymuch in the framework of movies
like 13 Going on 30 and 10Things I Hate About you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And all the movies.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That told me that I was gonna be a hot journalist in
my 30s.
But I also wanted in the NewYork City and I'd be calling
cabs like every lunch break.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Oh, I definitely pictured like living in the
queue apartment in the city andlike yeah, they really didn't
take out.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
They really like, made our adult life look.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
really it was a narrow path, like crying over a
really bad breakup even seemedsomewhat desirable.
Eating ice cream in bed itseemed desirable to go through a
bad breakup.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Camerideas in the scarf in bed in England eating
the ice cream was like oh, thislooks so amazing.
I know.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Anyway, but I remember.
So I always pictured I was likeI always wanted a job.
I also always wanted to getmarried and have kids.
So I didn't know how thatfactored in, because you don't
see that in the movies growing.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
No, they never do both.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And also because all the moms in the movies growing
up had bad hair that made themlook old.
And we were just looking atthis video about hair psychology
and it put like old lady hairon all the like celebrities that
are in their 50s now, likeCourtney Cox and Jennifer
Aniston, and like they literallylook like they're 70 years old.
Yeah, so anyway.
(15:50):
No wonder we weren't picturingourselves with parents or as
parents with kids, because theyall looked old as hell.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, they did.
I mean, the golden girls werelike younger than our mom
currently and I thought theywere ancient.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I know it's because they all had the hair.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, it's very interesting, it is interesting
Also the oh, I lost my train ofthought.
It was something about the kidthing about how you like they
don't portray that in the movies.
Oh, I was gonna say Shanika,who is on our House of Wax
episode.
Her and I have this likeobsession right now about
updating each other on the likefamous New York City mom
(16:26):
TikTokers.
Oh, and like it's like day inthe life of like hot New York.
City mom with like four kidsnot four kids, like two or three
kids.
Uh-huh, they're loaded, they'regetting to live.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Both lives, both lives Interesting, it's so
intriguing.
I want to see we like talkabout it every time we see each
other.
How old are they?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Like 30, something Interesting.
Yeah, they're doing it all.
Huh, I mean, one of them, I'mpretty sure, is single too.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Are they like stay at home moms, or are they?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
No one of them's like a day in the life of a working
New York City mom.
Ok, and she's like loaded richand whatever I'm so intrigued.
And then the other one, I think, stays home and has a rich
husband.
Ok, so there's a variety.
I can't wait to get on thistrain, but it's so interesting
that those people got to watch13 going on 30 and then they got
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to live it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I know.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
How.
I don't know what's the formulafor this.
I went wrong somewhere.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
For real.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I mean not wrong, but what Different yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I just didn't realize there were options other
than that, because that was allI saw.
I know New York Minute man withthe Olsen twins.
I was like this is just myfuture Dude.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The Olsen twins Talk about setting us up for like too
high of expectations.
I thought I was going to findlove on every vacation I went on
For sure.
Yeah, and like that I don'tknow, me and my friend would
literally always pretend that wewere twins and like force her
mom to tell people that we weretwins.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Was it the friend that locked you on the back
porch of the dog?
Yes, it was the bossy friend.
Yes, we need a name for her.
Like a reference point, becausethe locked you in the back
porch of the dog is way too long.
And she comes up way too oftenbe saying that every episode.
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I did a lot of childhood with her, and her mom
would tell people that we weretwins.
I have a vivid memory of usbeing at a water park trying to
convince an adult that we weretwins, and the adult was like
not playing games with us anddid not give a shit.
And she was like hardcore.
And then not kidding, this isall unlocking.
(18:35):
As I'm saying it, we got in afight because I ended up like
being like LOL, yeah, it's ajoke and she was pissed that I
broke character.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
So, oh my gosh, but yeah, I feel like so.
When I finally got like wasworking nine to five, I just
remember thinking and not that Iwas like comparing it to the
movies at that point, but I justremember thinking like when I
finally have like gotten out ofcollege, got a job and like sat
down at my desk for the firstday of work Because I interned
(19:07):
there before, but then I liketook the full time, graduated,
did the thing, and I was like,oh my gosh, this is my life.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
now Is this the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Is this what everyone's been doing?
They're all just okay withsitting here, yeah, for nine
hours a day and these windowsdon't open and like, like I was
just not like not in a grave way.
I just was like there's nofresh air in this building.
There's like a actual watercooler where people go and chat.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Which is interesting because you did work at a cool
place and you also love theoffice.
I'm surprised you weren't likeI'm getting to live my office
dream.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
In some ways I was, but I think it was like when I
like was there every day, I waslike, oh my gosh, that was a
realization for me was like oh,I don't know when my next break
is.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't get a spring break.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I had friends that were like going on spring
breaks.
And I was like I've donesomething wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Like I, have no more spring breaks and life has begun
.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, no one prepares you.
I mean, I guess you're justsupposed to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Which we did.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, you're supposed to think ahead like, oh
, this we're not going to have aspring break forever.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But I think that's a common thing, like I think a lot
of people like get into there.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Well, because your whole life, your it's like, your
whole life is punctuated bylike what's the next thing?
Yeah, it's so, it, and then allof a sudden you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Oh my gosh.
And having kids, even more sowhen I had a.
When I had my son.
I remember being like I don'teven get weekends.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Like.
I don't even like.
This just goes on and on everyday.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And on.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah what you do and you get breaks yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is interesting that your life really does
revolve around breaks and thenall of a sudden there aren't any
.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I mean, I think that's why there's people that,
like, are always planning avacation.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, I will say I'm kind of one of those people that
I don't love when I don't havesomething to look forward to.
I typically need something.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, I've just turned into the person that
always needs a package coming.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Like I was talking to you about this, how you're.
It's like the modern day, it'sthe modern day.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
QVC person.
I'm like, if I don't, even ifit's like a bag of screws from
Amazon, I'm like I got a packagecoming, all as well, I got a
stuff.
I got to take a step back.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I do, I do love a package coming.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I love a package coming.
I have a piece of mail on mycounter right now that I haven't
opened and I know what it is.
It's like thank you letters fora nonprofit that I'm on the
board of that I have to writedonors, and I get a boost of
serotonin when I just see theunopened package on my counter
and it's been there for a weekand I know what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And it's not exciting .
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And it's not exciting , but it's like my brain has
been like trained to see apackage and I'm like ooh.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I mean, it's so weird .
It's true, though, because Ithink that that's normal.
Yeah, I think that like maybenot package, but like I feel
like people have always lovedgetting mail, yeah that's true,
and as an adult, I mean even Samloves getting mail.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I mean even Sam loves getting mail.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Like some loves to check the mail.
Yeah, my curls do too.
But, as an adult, so often it'sbills and junk mail and like
scary adult things.
And so it really is nice whenit's something exciting.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
This is the most adult.
There are hopefully no youngerpeople listening to this,
because this is a really sadconversation Like this is the
epitome.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Do you remember when McDonald's was great, even just
like?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
the most exciting thing that's happening to our
lives is getting mail, gettingscrews in the mail and like
reminiscing on McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I know, no, that's not true.
We've got a lot of other goodthings going on, we do.
We literally test each othertoday and we're like I've been
like very depressed the last twodays.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So just take this as this is depression speaking.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, this is depression speaking, we're glass
half full tonight.
I mean, you have empty tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Do you know what I just got requested, though, for
veil?
My oldest daughter is turningseven in December and we're
taking her to the American GirlStore for her birthday.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And I've never been.
Did she know?
Yeah, she knows.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I've never been because there wasn't one in
Charlotte growing up, but I justrequested a catalog for her to
get.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So there is nothing like the American Girl's catalog
.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I'm a little scared to look at it though, because I
really wanted to be the exactsame as it was when I was little
, but I think it's probablysimilar, like they're still
going to have Felicity.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
No, they don't.
No, freaking way, she'sdiscontinued.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
No, freaking way, caroline, I'm going to tell you
this Before I gave her veil,felicity, I looked up her value
and she's worth like $1,200 nowbecause she's like they've
discontinued her.
Up.
They don't have Felicity, theyjust continued a lot of them, do
they have?
Kids.
They don't have Yosafina.
They have kids.
They don't have Yosafina.
I don't think so.
I don't think they have Addy.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh my God, like a lot of them are like Addy was so
cute she had the little buckteeth.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I know I guess they all do, but she had the little
bob, did she?
No, who's the one with, likethe short little ginger bob?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Ginger bob?
I don't remember, but there area lot of them are gone.
I looked on the website and Iwas like I don't recognize any
of you bitches.
They're all men Damn.
I know, but anyway that'll beexciting.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Now I'm like determined, with short, red hair
.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Maybe I'm wrong.
I think you're mixing, I'mmixing someone up.
Felicity had long red hair andKit had short blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Wait, who's this one?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I have never seen her in my life.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
She's one of the new bitches.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I know that's what I'm saying.
I'm not ready.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh yeah, that's a Emily Bennett.
Who the fuck are you, emily?
Mary Ellen Larkin.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's another one.
I'm telling you it's not goingto be the same, Lindsay.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Man, this is throwing me off.
Sage they got like hipsternames, like a bunch of hipster
parents.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I think that's sage the 2001.
Must be.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And then there's Nelly Dang, Mia St Clair.
That sounds like a trust fundbaby.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I never liked Samantha because she was spoiled
.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, she had the plaid like school outfit, right.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
She was Victorian.
I think People love Samantha.
I am really mixing these up.
You really are.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I was also a bitty baby gal and mom never got me
the like mom.
No, she got me the look like me.
Yeah, and I kind of messed outon the character thing.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I never read the books.
No, should have Anyways, allright, well, this was fun.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
This was fun.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Have a great Tuesday See you next Tuesday.
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